Mighty Hoopla 2023: 7 iconic moments we’ll remember forever June 5, 2023 Drag, cabaret, live performance… Britain’s most colourful music and arts festival, Mighty Hoopla, has wrapped for another year. The festival welcomed over 60,000 people to London’s Brockwell Park over the weekend, and has become famous for uniting Britain’s pop music fans and LGBTQ people over two days of the most vibrant staging the festival circuit [...]
Aston Martin DB12: First look at glam new British super tourer June 5, 2023 Everything you need to know about the new Aston Martin DB12, including power and performance figures, plus how it's likely to drive.
Nobu Shoreditch is back, now with ultra-chic new rooftop rooms June 5, 2023 The weekend: Like most London hotels, Nobu Hotel London Shoreditch was forced close in March 2020, due to the pandemic. It reopened some two years later, having taken advantage of its time out of the spotlight to upgrade its offering. Found in a quiet street in what is London’s most creative corner, just off Great [...]
Aston Martin DB5 ‘No Time To Die’ review: Shrunken and stirred June 5, 2023 Tim Pitt drives a small-scale tribute to James Bond’s iconic Aston Martin DB5, complete with machine guns and a smoke screen.
Three years after Covid began, Japan is welcoming tourists June 5, 2023 Just hours after arriving in Japan from London, a geisha girl is teaching me a drinking game. She sings a lilting, nursery rhyme-style tune as we take turns tapping the small wooden box between us, trying to catch each other out by whipping the box away so the other person must lay a closed fist on the [...]
Mad About The Boy charts 73 years of Noël Coward’s amazing life June 2, 2023 This new, bite-sized biography of the late playwright, actor, and raconteur Noël Coward squeezes a lot into just over ninety minutes, but while it rarely stops for breath, it paints an interesting portrait of a life of contradictions. Barnaby Thompson, director of the St Trinian’s reboot and likeable 2020 comedy Pixie, drags us through Coward’s [...]
Across The Spider-verse review: another hit animated romp June 2, 2023 It’s difficult to express just how impactful 2018’s Into The Spider-verse has been on Hollywood. Critically adored and a box office hit, it was a soft launch for the ‘multiverse’ concept in superhero movies. It played with possibilities safe in the knowledge that it didn’t need to be a part of any larger network of [...]
Pride Month 2023 in London: Where to go and what to do June 1, 2023 Summer is finally upon us and Pride Month has officially begun. Throughout June London will play host to hundreds of LGBT events in venues across the capital, culminating in the 2023 Parade on 1 July. As well as the usual host of fabulous drag acts, open-air theatre and coruscating comedy, there will be awareness events and [...]
Where Succession succeeded: An anatomy of a modern classic June 1, 2023 At the wrap party for the final episode of Succession, Jeremy Strong – who played Kendall Roy, the cursed sibling at the heart of this tragi-comic melodrama – had his head shaved by Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook. An infamous method actor (he actually drank the vile “meal for a king” of cacao powder, eggs [...]
Blacklock founder Gordon Ker on the rise of Canary Wharf May 31, 2023 I’ve wanted to open a restaurant in Canary Wharf for a while. I love the rich history of the nearby Docklands and Billingsgate Market, the diverse demographic of office goers and local residents that live and work there. But going from an old basement brothel in Soho or a furniture factory in Shoreditch to a [...]
